Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-204) and index.
Contents
Progressivism and the war -- The United States faces the postwar world -- Anything but "normal": postwar American politics and the demise of progressivism -- Capital triumphant: the postwar decline of the American labor movement -- African Americans in the postwar period -- The rapid rise and the swift decline of the Ku Klux Klan -- Nordics to the front: the 1924 National Origins Act -- The New Era and the presidential election of 1928.